Triple boot MacBook Pro late 2013

Install Ubuntu

Follow instructions here.
How to solve some issues.

Install Windows 7

Making USB ports work

The main challenge of installing Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro with only USB 3.0 ports is that the Windows 7 installer does not have USB 3.0 drivers. Initially I tried to bypass using Bootcamp to install Windows because I've already partitioned the disk and the Bootcamp doesn't work with partitioned hard disk. I tried several methods, including slip streaming USB 3.0 drivers to the Windows installer, but it didn't work. The mouse and keyboard wouldn't work so I couldn't progress in the installation process. Finally as the last resort, I deleted all the partitions including the Recovery HD, so that Bootcamp can work again.

Before deleting the Recovery partition though, I tried to copy it to a USB stick (just to be safe). However, I had a lot of trouble backing up the Recovery HD partition to a USB stick. It turned out that the main reason was that the size of my USB stick was not big enough. It requires a USB of 2GB+ memory.

After restoring the hard disk to 1 partition, Bootcamp works again and the keyboard and mouse works during the Windows installation process. However, after I booted into Windows 7, the USB ports still didn't work so I couldn't access all the Windows support drivers (network adapters, graphic card drivers etc) downloaded in the USB stick. As the network was not working either, I couldn't access the Internet either. Finally, I solved the problem by install VMware Fusion and created a virtual machine from the BootCamp partition. Then I did the following:

1. Share the driver folders from the host OS to the guest OS (BootCamp and $WinPEDriver$ folders) and copied these folders into the Windows partition.  
2. Reboot into Windows and install the drivers using the "setup.exe" file in the BootCamp folder (Note that you can't do the setup in the virtual machine because the setup program will report that the computer is not compatible with the drivers).

Other standard steps

1. If haven't already done son, install rEFInd boot manager. After downloading the program, just go to its folder and run

   $ ./install.sh

   Every time after a major OS update, the program seems to be affected and you need to install the program again.
   

Resources:
http://clc.its.psu.edu/UnivServices/itadmins/mac/blastimageconfig/createasrrecoveryhdimage10.7
http://lifehacker.com/5823096/how-to-burn-your-own-lion-install-dvd-or-flash-drive
http://www.iclarified.com/entry/?enid=2672
Add triple boot OSes to virtual machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNYXWEdVivo